9-letter words containing c, u, r, e, a
- gaucherie — lack of social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkwardness; crudeness; tactlessness.
- genicular — of or relating to the knee
- gericault — (Jean Louis André) Théodore [zhahn lwee ahn-drey tey-aw-dawr] /ʒɑ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈdreɪ teɪ ɔˈdɔr/ (Show IPA), 1791–1824, French painter.
- grace cup — a cup, as of wine, passed around at the end of the meal for the final health or toast.
- gracefull — Archaic form of graceful.
- graticule — Navigation. a network of parallels and meridians on a map or chart.
- grauncher — a person who crushes or destroys
- heraclius — a.d. 575?–641, Byzantine emperor 610–641.
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- heucheras — Plural form of heuchera.
- housecarl — a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.
- huaraches — Plural form of huarache.
- hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
- jacquerie — the revolt of the peasants of northern France against the nobles in 1358.
- kachumber — a salad of chopped onion, tomato, cucumber, and (sometimes) other vegetables, typically seasoned with chilli and coriander, served as an accompaniment to a main meal
- la cumbre — Uspallata Pass.
- lacquered — a protective coating consisting of a resin, cellulose ester, or both, dissolved in a volatile solvent, sometimes with pigment added.
- lacquerer — One who lacquers.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- latreutic — of or relating to latria.
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- lubricate — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
- macquarie — a river in SE Australia, in New South Wales, flowing NW to the Darling River. 750 miles (1210 km) long.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- manurance — the cultivation or occupation of land
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- mercurate — Also, mercuriate [mer-kyoo r-ee-it, -eyt] /mərˈkyʊər i ɪt, -ˌeɪt/ (Show IPA). any salt in which bivalent mercury is part of a complex anion.
- mercurial — changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature.
- micturate — to pass urine; urinate.
- molecular — of or relating to or caused by molecules: molecular structure.
- moraceous — belonging to the Moraceae, the mulberry family of plants.
- muckraked — Simple past tense and past participle of muckrake.
- muckraker — to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
- muckrakes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muckrake.
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- neuralgic — sharp and paroxysmal pain along the course of a nerve.